ascetically
- r in an ascetic manner
she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself
- For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of Plato's description of him, as a highborn philosopher who lived ascetically, spent his time asking searching .
- The Pre-Raphaelites had lost their ascetically youthful idealism.
- Despite his wealth and power, Faisal lived simply and ascetically; his code was the Koran and his customs those of a Bedouin Arab.